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Text: Luke 10: 10-12

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS V

“But whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, ‘The very dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near you.’ But I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that city.”

Luke 10:10-12

1. The cities that reject

a. These show hostility.

b. They will not receive the Disciples of the Lord.

2. Declaration of the Disciples

a. Symbolic dust:

i. Inevitably, dust would be picked up by the sandals worn by the disciples.

ii. The dust may be “wiped off” against the hostile city.

iii. The Disciples will not be held responsible when the cities are judged by God one day.

b. The Kingdom of God had come near to them.

i. But the Kingdom had been rejected.

ii. Thus, the people had no one to blame but themselves if they do not make it into the Kingdom of God.

3. The fate of Sodom

a. The story of the destruction of Sodom is found in Genesis 19.

b. God has sent 2 angels to visit the city and to see if they could find 10 righteous people.

c. The city would then be spared from destruction.

d. The city of Sodom was destroyed because of its wickedness.

4. The fate of the hostile cities

a. These would also be judged.

b. They would suffer a worse fate because they had rejected the Kingdom of God offered to them.

经文：路加福音 10：10-12

具体的指示（五）

“无论进哪一城，人若不接待你们，你们就到街上去，说：‘就是你们城里的尘土粘在我们的脚上，我们也当着你们擦去。虽然如此，你们该知道神的国临近了。’我告诉你们：当审判的日子，所多玛所受的比那城还容易受呢！”

《路加福音 10：10-12》

1. 拒绝门徒们的城

a. 这些城表现敌意

b. 他们不会接受主的门徒

2. 门徒们的宣言

a. 象征性的尘土

i. 尘土必然会粘在门徒们所穿的鞋子上

ii. 可当着这些充满敌意的城面前“擦去”尘土

iii. 在上帝审判这些城那日，门徒们无需负责

b. 上帝的国已经临近他们了

i. 但上帝的国被拒绝

ii. 因此，这些城的人若不能进入上帝的国，他们只能怪自己

3. 所多玛的下场

a. 《创世记 19》记载了所多玛被毁灭的故事

b. 上帝差了两位天使到那城里查看是否能寻得十个义人

c. 若是有，上帝就不会毁灭那城

d. 所多玛最终因为罪恶而被毁灭了

4. 这些充满敌意的城的命运

a. 他们也会被审判

b. 他们会遭受更惨的命运，因为即便向他们宣扬了上帝的国，他们还是拒绝了